Honorary Secretary of the Gibraltar Society for the Prevention of Blindness for twenty years and Chair of the Gibraltar branch of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for fifteen. In 1970, Dorothy Ellicott was appointed first female Justice of Peace of Gibraltar. In 1972, she was awarded the OBE. In 2008, the recently created Gibraltar Medallion of Honour was bestowed, posthumously, upon Dorothy Ellicott for public service and service to heritage. As a historian, she wrote several articles, booklets and books. Her most renowned work was Our Gibraltar, published in 1974 by the Gibraltar Museum. It was described by Sir Varyl Begg (Governor of Gibraltar from 1969 to 1973), as a work that told "the story of The Rock in a manner suitable for the visitor seeking a brief outline of historical events in easily digestible form". It is also mentioned by Sir William Jackson (historian and Governor of Gibraltar from 1978 to 1982), in the preface of his work The Rock of the Gibraltarians (1990). Works (with her husband, J.T. Elliott) Bibliography References Gibraltarian historians Gibraltarian Anglicans Gibraltarian politicians Gibraltarian women in politics Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights politicians British emigrants to Gibraltar 1901 births 1990 deaths 20th-century British historians Officers of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century British women politicians Gibraltarian women writers British women historians 20th-century historians 20th-century British women writers 20th-century British non-fiction writers Historians of Gibraltar